Heated Debate On Trump Stops Fox From Going To Commerical Break

On Friday’s episode of Outnumbered on Fox News Channel, things got so heated between panelists Harris Faulkner and Julie Roginsky that producers decided to let cameras roll uninterrupted for more than 17 minutes.

Members of the panel were discussing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Friday speech on birtherism, which he promised he would address. But reporters at the event became outraged when they felt they had been duped into watching a 20-minute praise session of Trump by veterans, as well as several advertisements for his new hotel.

At the very end of the speech, Trump briefly addressed the birther controversy and acknowledged that President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.

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“President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said. “Now we all want to get back to making America strong and great again.”

However, before Trump walked off, he engaged in some political maneuvering by telling the press it was actually Hillary Clinton that originally started the birther movement

“I might have an aneurysm on air, right now,” Roginsky said, clearly growing impatient with the positive tone of the conversation.

Throughout the segment, Roginsky continually repeated there was “no evidence” that Trump ever stopped believing in the claims of Obama being born outside of the U.S. She demanded he take responsibility for fanning the flames.

“He previously said Obama was not born here, now he’s saying Obama was born here. Tell me why you believe that Donald Trump,” Roginsky said.

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At one point, Faulkner brought up how it was hypocritical that only Obama was immune from scrutiny.

“Why is it racist Barack Obama and not with Ted Cruz?” Faulkner asked.

Roginsky’s responded by affirming that Cruz actually was born in Canada, so it was a reasonable demand. However, it was inappropriate that Trump chose to attack the first African-American president, and she questioned why he even needed to do it.

The two panelists argued up until a long-overdue commercial break, unable to reach any sort of middle ground.